Val-Saint-Gilles
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Val-Saint-Gilles () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality about north of La Sarre. It covers 109.39 km² and with a population of 169 in the 2021 Canadian census, it is the least populous incorporated municipality in the regional county.
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- Official name
- Val-Saint-Gilles
- Demonym
- Saint-Gilloise
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 182
- Area
- 109.74
- Elevation
- 345
- Shares border with
- Eeyou Istchee James Bay Regional Government
- Official website
- valst-gilles.ao.ca
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- Commons category
- Val-Saint-Gilles, Quebec
- inception
- 1939-04-01
- external georeferencing URL
- www.goazimut.com/GOnet6/?m=87105
- separated from
- Clermont
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Val-Saint-Gilles () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality about north of La Sarre. It covers 109.39 km² and with a population of 169 in the 2021 Canadian census, it is the least populous incorporated municipality in the regional county.
It lies at the northern edge of the Abitibi Clay Belt. The undulating land is dotted with swamps, a few small lakes, and sand and gravel deposits. Its high point is marked by two hills near the village with an altitude of . The Turgeon River, the only notable river and tributary of the Harricana River, flows through the north-western part of the municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Val-Saint-Gilles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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